Small-scale grain raising: an organic guide to growing, processing, and using nutritious whole grains for home gardeners and local farmers

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Homegrown grains: the key to food security -- Corn: America's amazing maize -- Wheat: the source of the staff of life -- The sorghum family -- Oats: the high-protein cereal grain -- Dry beans: the "poor man's meat" -- Rye and barley -- Buckwheat and millet -- Rice: the oldest garden grain -- Some uncommon grains, old and new -- Legumes: the overlooked partner in small-scale grain raising -- Feeding grain to animals.;First published in 1977, this book-from one of America's most famous and prolific agricultural writers-became an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small farmers. Now fully updated and available once more, ""Small-Scale Grain Raising"" offers a entirely new generation of readers the best introduction to a wide range of both common and lesser-known specialty grains and related field crops, from corn, wheat, and rye to buckwheat, millet, rice, spelt, flax, and even beans and sunflowers. More and more Americans are seeking out locally grown foods, yet one of the real stumbling b.